I use Zagat still, because it reliably ensures reasonable to excellent service while not pandering to the cutting-edge food trends that mean 90-minute waits for a noodle bowl while people trying to be trendy crowd a bar with shitty drinks designed to appeal to their garbage palate. FWIW, I'm in my early 30's, so I'm well aware it's my 'peers' ruining things for everyone...

Denver native here, and while there is *STRONG* local opposition to bringing a fucking huge tax leech into our city, what exactly makes Denver 'unworkable'? We have like the 2nd or 3rd busiest airport in the country in terms of total flights, our politics are largely inoffensive to all but the most extreme on either side (and there's always Boulder and The Springs if you need to sate them) and there are likely sites to the North, East, and South of the city proper that allow for both the highly paid talent to live the high life and still have developing burbs for everyone else. Our public rail system is growing even as it sits virtually unused, and we've basically been increasing capacity of our roads for the last decade and a half. Our quality of life is highly regarded, whether you want to do stuff outdoors, or just eat/shop/shows/sports/nightlife. There's also the consideration that we are a *MAJOR* backbone, rail, and over-the-road hub, with minimal energy and water costs compared to 'big' cites like Chicago, NY, an LA, and we are pretty attractive from the insurance/DR side - no real earthquakes, minimal flooding, fires only really hit the mountains, and Tornadoes rarely get close to the city. The only thing we don't have is a Beach, and we're a 2-3 hour flight from either Coast if that's your thing...

There's a reason we have laughable growth over the last decade, with rent prices that have made property ownership a virtual necessity for people wanting to stay here. There's quite a bit of speculation that if the state and city were willing to bribe them even a little it would be a done deal, but since that will *hopefully* never happen, maybe one of the more corrupt govts will be happy to sign up for a huge Company Store to take over their lives...

I feel like it's also a huge warning sign for anyone trying to sell large-scale luxury 'infrastructure' goods in the ME - the long term finances required for stuff like skyscraper construction or buying jumbo jets aren't looking to hot right now.

Supercars, expensive watches, and ridiculous handbags? Sure. But 8-figure-plus stuff? Planning your long term strategy around a bunch of oil barons having money to burn in another decade is a dangerous proposition.

Not just Ranger Candy - it's been the cure-all for aches and pains among athletes for YEARS, since the only 'real' side effects have been Stomach/Intestinal problems for older people. When I was actively playing Football in HS/College, I was taking 2400mg/day (with a doctor's blessing) without *any* concern. It's been my go-to treatment for knee and back problems as I entered my 30's (albeit at a much lower dose.) Stacking it and CBD is almost as effective for me as stacking it and Percocet for short-term heavy-duty acute pain relief.

I haven't hoped that a study was retracted quite so much in a long time... :(

So, I am 3 decades away (if I'm lucky) but I've seen a number of relatively senior level tech people orchestrate retirement with a variety of approaches and just as many different outcomes.

If they don't already know it's coming they're complete idiots, if they haven't realized they are going to need to replace you either they are idiots or you're not terribly valuable moving forward; and if they haven't already approached you, you don't owe them more than 2 weeks notice.

Keep the bridges intact though. My grandpa's comfortable retirement is funded more by the short-term consulting he does than the 40 years of retirement savings he built.

Isn't one of the key defining features of a bubble when a large number of relatively uniformed people decide to participate based on credit and margin? Tulips, the Great Crash, Great Recession, Internet Stocks, Great Recession...

When it's typically costing you more than $10k/yr, the 'intrinsic value' of a degree has very real cost/benefit concerns for most people. I'd love to pursue an advanced degree in something genuinely interesting, but it is prohibitively expensive for me to do so. So I will finish the MBA slog, and get paid more in my next job, and use my free time to pursue something more rewarding outside of academia.

So, uh, how much time did *you* spend in the WinMo6 ecosystem a decade ago? Because in ~'08, Android (aka the TMobile G1) was a kooky developer toy without any real mainstream acceptance, iPhones had horrifying teething issues in enterprise, and if you wanted to do actual, grown-up business, you either used a Blackberry because you were technologically illiterate, or you used WinMo because ActiveSync.

RIP Touch Pro/2, and the granddaddy of you all, the HTC PocketPC!

5-digit UID Burn!

"VR needs 90+" - Sure, and my 3D TV needed a new HDMI spec when it was bleeding edge. Of course, I haven't turned on 3D in a few years, because outside of a few fun demos, it just wasn't justifiable.

I finally pulled the trigger on a Ryzen system, because my Phenom II Black platform was starting to have driver issues finally. I didn't really have any major issues doing whatever I wanted to throw at it in 2K, but I don't spend my nights juicing a few FPS out of benchmarks anymore. The biggest gains for years have still been buying a new GPU whenever a major architecture delta is introduced. I've yet to see significant *practical* gaming 'workflows' that justify Intel significantly more than AMD, it's allllll e-peen. And don't get me wrong, the world of $1k desktop gaming processors is pretty exclusively an e-peen sector to begin with, so yeah, 'AMD SUXORZ FOR GAMING TEH LULZ.'

For the same reason that carriers don't upgrade infrastructure unless it literally crashes, why companies like HP got rid of expensive engineers, and why small oil companies don't dig lots of exploration bores. You don't need 'real' growth if quarterly profits look good on paper because you are slashing costs, and everyone at the top of the pile is going to be gone in 3 years when the old wells run dry.

There's a very popular, relatively new voiceprinting application that's managed to get inside at least 3 of the largest banks in the US. It's pretty neat, it analyzes known fraud calls and then flags calls based on the print (it also adds in some other neat carrier metadata for better accuracy and speed.) All real time, so if the system tags a call above a certainty threshold, it can do anything from notify the agent (almost no one does this, for obvious reasons) to transfer the call to a specialist to hang it up entirely. It's interesting to hear that there are practical health and safety implications for the tech, but everyone should be aware that this is getting to be commodity-level service in call centers, and they're already asking if it can do things other than just fraud. Banks have it because they save millions of dollars (mostly on overseas account fraud, which is unrecoverable) but it's getting cheaper.

'I'm just asking questions' - The most useless people involved in a conversation. Typically they just want to hear the sound of their own voice, and they are incapable of thinking before opening said mouths. Article affirms it.

I've spent the last half-decade deep in the bowels of a product that is the result of an Israeli code from the early 00's being supported and maintained largely by Ukrainians for the latter half of it's lifetime. So, personal experience here.

It's almost impossible to work with Israeli companies when it comes to actual production stuff. There's such a massive difference when it comes to their logic. They assume they are *always* right. And I have yet to see Israeli code that has error correction built into it anywhere - why would the code fail, it worked when we wrote it? Israeli start-up Environments combines the worst parts SV mentality with a national culture that is difficult to work with at the best of times - better hope you don't have a production outage on Friday!

My Israeli coworkers are mostly great people, and we've had a lot of fun, and I respect them quite a bit. But give me one of the non-Israeli guys any day of the week if something is broken and needs to be fixed correctly, and not just patched until it breaks again. Start-ups are great for starting up, but when your 20 year old company is still running in start-up mode, no thank you.

Its like critics go out of their way to dislike anything that isn't an indie-film documentary - RT currently has Captain Underpants and Guardians 2 at 80%+. If either of those is a documentary, I would rather live in their world than ours.